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The fifth discipline : the art and practice of the learning organization / Peter M. Senge.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Currency bookPublication details: New York : Doubleday/Currency, c2006.Edition: Rev. and updatedDescription: xviii, 445 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0385517254 (pbk.)
  • 0385517823
  • 9780385517256 (pbk.)
  • 9780385517829
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Contents:
PART I: HOW OUR ACTIONS CREATE OUR REALITY AND HOW WE CAN CHANGE IT: "Give me a lever long enough ... and single-handed I can move the world" -- Does your organization have a learning disability? -- Prisoners of the system, or prisoners of our own thinking? -- PART II: THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE: THE CORNERSTONE OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION: The law of the fifth discipline -- A shift of mind -- Nature's templates: identifying the patterns that control events -- Self-limiting or self-sustaining growth -- PART III: THE CORE DISCIPLINES: BUILDING THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION: Personal mastery -- Mental models -- Shared vision -- Team learning == PART IV: REFLECTIONS FROM PRACTICE: Foundations -- Impetus -- Strategies -- The leader's new work -- Systems citizens -- Frontiers -- PART V: CODA: The invisible whole -- Appendix 1: The Learning disciplines -- Appendix 2: Systems archetypes -- Appendix 3: The U process.
Review: "In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning "disabilities" that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations - ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create results they truly desire." "The revised and updated Currency edition of this business classic contains over one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies like BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, Saudi Aramco, and organizations like Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank. It features a new Foreword about the success Peter Senge has achieved with learning organizations since the book's inception, as well as new chapters on Impetus (getting started), Strategies, Leaders' New Work, Systems Citizens, and Frontiers for the Future."--BOOK JACKET.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES IN PRINT * "One of the seminal management books of the past seventy-five years."-- Harvard Business Review

This revised edition of the bestselling classic is based on fifteen years of experience in putting Peter Senge's ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization's ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas of the Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published, have become deeply integrated into people's ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices.

Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning blocks that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations, in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create the results they truly desire.

Mastering the disciplines Senge outlines in the book will:

* Reignite the spark of genuine learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them
* Bridge teamwork into macrocreativity
* Free you of confining assumptions and mindsets
* Teach you to see the forest and the trees
* End the struggle between work and personal time

This updated edition contains more than one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies such as BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, and Saudi Aramco and organizations such as Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: HOW OUR ACTIONS CREATE OUR REALITY AND HOW WE CAN CHANGE IT: "Give me a lever long enough ... and single-handed I can move the world" -- Does your organization have a learning disability? -- Prisoners of the system, or prisoners of our own thinking? -- PART II: THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE: THE CORNERSTONE OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION: The law of the fifth discipline -- A shift of mind -- Nature's templates: identifying the patterns that control events -- Self-limiting or self-sustaining growth -- PART III: THE CORE DISCIPLINES: BUILDING THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION: Personal mastery -- Mental models -- Shared vision -- Team learning == PART IV: REFLECTIONS FROM PRACTICE: Foundations -- Impetus -- Strategies -- The leader's new work -- Systems citizens -- Frontiers -- PART V: CODA: The invisible whole -- Appendix 1: The Learning disciplines -- Appendix 2: Systems archetypes -- Appendix 3: The U process.

"In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning "disabilities" that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations - ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create results they truly desire." "The revised and updated Currency edition of this business classic contains over one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies like BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, Saudi Aramco, and organizations like Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank. It features a new Foreword about the success Peter Senge has achieved with learning organizations since the book's inception, as well as new chapters on Impetus (getting started), Strategies, Leaders' New Work, Systems Citizens, and Frontiers for the Future."--BOOK JACKET.

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